Submitted By Christiane Gruber
Dear colleagues,
“Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online” is an emerging platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of the history of Islamic art and architecture. In its initial stage, the platform provides original multimedia content developed by scholars from across the field of Islamic art, which is intended to aid educators in the creation of an interactive learning environment and to contribute to new ways of teaching in general, bringing new voices, perspectives, and materials into our classrooms. The project is spearheaded by Prof. Christiane Gruber at the University of Michigan and a team of six collaborators. Team Khamseen will make this material available to public audiences, with the aim to establish and expand a website with additional resources over the coming months.
Currently available mini-multimedia files include the following presentations, which were kindly (and very swiftly) provided by international experts. We hope these will prove useful to those teaching remotely this fall semester:
Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture
The Egyptian Tentmakers and the Art of Khayamiya
Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum
İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World
Touching Mecca & Medina: The Dalā'il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices
Gruber, Christiane and Paroma Chaterjee.
[available online with closed captions here]
A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad's Mi‘raj
[available online with closed captions here]
Persian Painting in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: Farangi Sâzi Safavid Paintings
Dome of the Rock: Original Mosaics
The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey
The Khanqah of Baybar al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310
Islamic Arms and Armor: A Look at Dhu'l Fiqar, ‘Ali's Miraculous Sword
Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Scuplture in Modern Egypt
The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection
Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents)
Monumental Mosques in Latin America
Khamseen is an ongoing project and more material will be included on a rolling basis. For any questions, or if you are interested in contributing a mini multi-media file, please contact Sandy Williams (University of Michigan) at sswill@umich.edu.
Sincerely,
Team Khamseen
Christiane Gruber
Sandy Williams
Yasemin Gencer
Mira Xenia Schwerda
Bihter Esener
Michelle Al-Ferzly
Ani Kalousdian
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